Pyewacket: a shawl by Síle Maureen

Pyewacket: a shawl

Knitting
July 2011
Light Fingering ?
5 stitches = 1 inch
in Stockinette st (unblocked)
US 7 - 4.5 mm
900 yards (823 m)
one
English
This pattern is available for free.

This is a top-down shawl in a sort-of half-circle shape. There is a minute amount of lace in the pattern. The pattern is written line by line to preserve the mystery of when and where Pyewacket appears. Pyewacket is the cat in the movie “Bell, Book and Candle” starring James Stewart & Kim Novack.

11/13/18: I have updated the pdf to more closely resemble my current patterns.

Skills/Techniques Used:

  • increases: yarnover (yo) & make 1 (M1)
  • decreases: knit 2 together (K2tog), slip next 2 stitches knitwise individually, return both stitches to the left needle and knit them together through their back loops (SSK), & knit 3 together (K3tog)